09-05-2021, 04:11 PM
For a few hundred years the role of good intentions in the affairs of Homo Sapiens has been articulated in one particular and profound manner.
"Hell is full of good meanings and wishes", was published in 1670 in A Collection of English Proverbs collected by John Ray (thanks to Wikipedia).
Senator McDonald has initiated the latest General Aviation inquiry, to take an agonising two years. She has not, to my knowledge, taken on board the 2014 Forsyth report. Has she or her Committee seen fit to study the 269 submissions that were published? They informed the recommendations that were put to Government. The Government made out that it accepted nearly all of about 37 recommendations but did not follow through and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority juggernaut continued it’s destruction of GA.
The saying, the modern version, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
How apt for Australia’s General Aviation (GA) industry? Living through thirty three years of backward slide, but hardly a year or two passes and there’s more good intentions by way of ‘industry consultations,’ or yet another inquiry and a new CEO, otherwise known by the fatuous title of Director of Aviation Safety, making out that there’s going to be a new era of reasonableness
Flying schools closing all over, insufficient pilots being trained so we’ve been importing them, maintenance organisations culled or given up. Irreplaceable Commonwealth airports being built over with factories and shopping centres because the land has been given over cheaply. To cap it off all the rules migrated inappropriately into the criminal code with strict liability for ease of prosecution, and huge penalties prescribed. Some such criminal deeds here don’t even rate a mention as misdemeanours in the USA, but we know how to over regulate for the overkill.
Our Civil Aviation Safety Authority, made independent back in 1988, has embarked on creating the most unworkable, expensive and complex regulatory environment that it could devise. Malevolent comes to mind. Advanced GA nations, the USA in particular, look at us in disbelief, nearly always too polite to make comment, but if one looks you will find undisguised and unflattering views, and no wonder. It is shameful, and the worse because it is so wasteful and unnecessary.
Our government has greatly reduced the role and responsibility of Minister in the misguided belief that government can be by remote control, that a selection of unelected people will altruistically run what was a Department without thought to salary increases, where they can push them to ‘commercial’ rates, and will work hard to administer in the most economical and efficient manner for the benefit of GA.
Without specific direction from the Minister we can expect more of the same or worse. The independent Commonwealth corporate administration concept is a failed experiment, cannot work in the National interest and never will. New CEO Pip Spence says they are “inching towards completion” of the rules, this was tasked to the newly independent regulator in 1988.
As to more detail of our present unhappy state of affairs, Mike Borgelt’s EAA Chapter 1308 submission to Senator MacDonald’s inquiry is an excellent guide to the horrendous regulatory mess that has been created for GA by CASA, and rubber stamped by successive governments.
"Hell is full of good meanings and wishes", was published in 1670 in A Collection of English Proverbs collected by John Ray (thanks to Wikipedia).
Senator McDonald has initiated the latest General Aviation inquiry, to take an agonising two years. She has not, to my knowledge, taken on board the 2014 Forsyth report. Has she or her Committee seen fit to study the 269 submissions that were published? They informed the recommendations that were put to Government. The Government made out that it accepted nearly all of about 37 recommendations but did not follow through and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority juggernaut continued it’s destruction of GA.
The saying, the modern version, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
How apt for Australia’s General Aviation (GA) industry? Living through thirty three years of backward slide, but hardly a year or two passes and there’s more good intentions by way of ‘industry consultations,’ or yet another inquiry and a new CEO, otherwise known by the fatuous title of Director of Aviation Safety, making out that there’s going to be a new era of reasonableness
Flying schools closing all over, insufficient pilots being trained so we’ve been importing them, maintenance organisations culled or given up. Irreplaceable Commonwealth airports being built over with factories and shopping centres because the land has been given over cheaply. To cap it off all the rules migrated inappropriately into the criminal code with strict liability for ease of prosecution, and huge penalties prescribed. Some such criminal deeds here don’t even rate a mention as misdemeanours in the USA, but we know how to over regulate for the overkill.
Our Civil Aviation Safety Authority, made independent back in 1988, has embarked on creating the most unworkable, expensive and complex regulatory environment that it could devise. Malevolent comes to mind. Advanced GA nations, the USA in particular, look at us in disbelief, nearly always too polite to make comment, but if one looks you will find undisguised and unflattering views, and no wonder. It is shameful, and the worse because it is so wasteful and unnecessary.
Our government has greatly reduced the role and responsibility of Minister in the misguided belief that government can be by remote control, that a selection of unelected people will altruistically run what was a Department without thought to salary increases, where they can push them to ‘commercial’ rates, and will work hard to administer in the most economical and efficient manner for the benefit of GA.
Without specific direction from the Minister we can expect more of the same or worse. The independent Commonwealth corporate administration concept is a failed experiment, cannot work in the National interest and never will. New CEO Pip Spence says they are “inching towards completion” of the rules, this was tasked to the newly independent regulator in 1988.
As to more detail of our present unhappy state of affairs, Mike Borgelt’s EAA Chapter 1308 submission to Senator MacDonald’s inquiry is an excellent guide to the horrendous regulatory mess that has been created for GA by CASA, and rubber stamped by successive governments.